We apply the lens of social judgement theory to understand causes and consequences growing debate about purpose corporation. Our historical analysis suggests that corporate is not new it tends arise during periods economic inequality. also discursive shift from shareholder stakeholder capitalism will trigger a standard evaluation corporations in which we no longer judge behavior based on standa...

As a committee of the National Academy of Engineering recognized, ethics education should foster the ability of students to analyze complex decision situations and ill-structured problems. Building on the NAE's insights, we report about an innovative teaching approach that has two main features: first, it places the emphasis on deliberation and on self-directed, problem-based learning in small ...

Civil society (CS) strengthening is central to peacebuilding policies for divided, post-war societies. However, it has been criticized for creating internationalized organizations without local backing, unable to represent citizens' interests. Based on in-depth empirical research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article focuses on the legitimacy of CS organizations (CSOs). It explores why legitimacy...

There is an overall legitimacy crisis in courts. The sources of this crisis have, to a large extent, been misconstrued. While there has been significant writing depicting the diminished quality, effectiveness, and fairness of courts, these phenomena have, for the most part, been viewed as distinct problems that warrant discrete solutions. This article shows that these problems are all manifesta...

This paper provides a new treatment of the problem of group action and political protest. It has two aims (a) to model resistance against state policies as a threshold public good, and (b) to consider legitimacy in terms of how legitimacy considerations affect choice. Experimental evidence suggests that the level of resistance depends on whether the sovereign is legitimated: high claims are rej...

This article presents a quantitative measurement of the political legitimacy of states in the late 1990s and early 2000s for 72 states containing 5.1 billion people, or 83 per cent of the world’s population. First, the concept of state legitimacy is defined and justified. The definition includes the subjects, objects and sub-types of legitimacy. A strategy to achieve replicable cross-national m...

The paper consists of two parts. The first part deals with the normative legitimacy of political communities, such as states and confederations, in general, i.e. their acceptability in light of reasonable standards of efficiency, common good, and justice from the viewpoints of their members on the one hand (internal legitimacy) and their social surroundings on the other (external legitimacy). T...

Past research has shown that procedural justice enhances an authority’s legitimacy and encourages people to cooperate with them. However, this past research has examined legitimacy by focusing solely on the perceived legitimacy of authorities and has ignored how people may perceive the legitimacy of the laws and rules authorities enforce. This distinction has relevance to the policing of ethnic...

Transnational governance schemes (TGSs) are interorganizational networks of public and/or private actors that jointly regulate global public policy issues, such as the prevention of human rights violations and the protection of ecosystems. Considering that TGSs mainly address issues of public concern, the general public represents a major source of legitimacy in transnational governance. We the...

Much research on political legitimacy has reported a widespread decline in support for institutions in industrial democracies. Despite falling legitimacy there have been no failures of such regimes, contrary to the expectation that participation by disgruntled citizens might destabilize regimes with low popular support. The literature’s conventional hypotheses are linear: declining legitimacy s...